Overview
- Manus rolled out Manus 2.0 on Monday, Sept. 28, introducing the Cascade agent architecture alongside an upgraded Manus Studio for professionals and an invite-only consumer app called Cue.
- Cascade is a resource-aware system that loads tools only when needed and runs parallel actions, and Manus reports internal tests showing 23.2% fewer tokens used, 28.2% faster task completion, and a 32% cut in operating costs versus the prior system.
- The product launch coincides with a developing $500 million funding round targeting an about $4 billion valuation, which compares with Manus’s roughly $125 million run rate reported for December 2025 and would price the company at roughly 32 times that run rate.
- Manus’s move follows a contested acquisition attempt by Meta that was blocked in April 2026 and the company’s relocation of most operations to Singapore by mid-2025, with Manus returning to fully independent operations on Sept. 1, 2026.
- Cue gives users personal AI agents with dedicated email addresses, phone numbers, and digital wallets that can message, call, and pay on a user’s behalf, a shift that could broaden consumer use but raise scalability, cost and regulatory questions; the efficiency figures cited are from company testing and have not been independently verified.